Our past experiences are not simply stored in the brainthey are patterns embedded into the circuitry of our brain-body system. For many people, their history can linger as patterns of dysregulati

We have learned that trauma is not just an event that took place sometime in the past; it [...] has ongoing consequences for how the human organism manages to survive in the present. Trauma results i

Memory is not just in the brain. Many of you have heard of the book, The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk. The main idea of the book is that memory is not just something contained in...READ

What does your mind do when it wanders? Perhaps you catch yourself getting 'lost in thought'... moments of daydreaming, wondering, wandering... Do you believe that those 'lapses in attention' are

[...] humans, people and knowledge are not only objectively significant: they are by far the most significant phenomena in nature the only ones whose behaviour cannot be understood without understa

"It's a blessing to be hidden and a disaster not to be found." - D. W. Winnicott The labels we assign to ourselves or accept from others can drastically influence our self-perception and motivation.

Attachment theory is not a 'theory'.. it's a part of our neurophysiological operating system Its a biobehavioral adaptation that helps us regulate ourselves and explore new frontiers. And attachment

"your brain is editing out what it thinks you should know about and what you shouldn't know about." -Dr. Allan Hamilton Understanding why we react the way we do, where our patterns come from and how

Ever feel like your brain's in a fog? Like something is off and your brain is not firing on all cylinders? This is something I come across a lot when working with clients, and particularly in doing br

Years ago, while studying with my mentor-professor at NYU, Zoran Josipovic - who was looking at brains scans of monks - I decided to stay for a few months at various monasteries. One of them was Deer